Red Gap


Red Gap is a hill around 400 feet above sea level, 16 kilometres southwest of Dublin city centre in the Dublin Mountains at Saggart. It is also known as Saggart Hill or Slieve Thoul. Today, Red Gap is home to farmland and telecommunication masts. The hill has FM radio transmitters for Newstalk, Kfm, LMFM, i105-107 and East Coast FM.
The hill is also home to low-power fill in transmitters of Nova 100 and 4FM, designed to cover the Dublin commuter belt
The old time song 'Campbell's farewell to Red Gap' is believed to be referring to this hill.

Radio transmissions

Frequency StationPower Notes
94.6Classic Hits 4FM0.1Covers commuter belt area of County Kildare and County Meath.
95.5LMFM2Covers south County Meath. Notable for being well outside the stations coverage area of Counties Meath and Louth and provides significant coverage into North County Dublin
97.6Kfm1Directional signal into County Kildare.
99.9East Coast FM2Directional signal into County Wicklow. Moved from 94.9 in 2005.
100.5Radio Nova 1000.1Covers commuter belt area of County Kildare and County Meath.
104.7iRadio4.95Provides coverage of County Kildare and County Meath.
107.6Newstalk1